Receive items without generating an item record.
Law libraries have loose leafs and pocket parts and do not need to have an item generated for them. We would like to be able to track when they are received but having them show up in Primo is messy and having a suppressed holding just to receive these items is also messy. Both would make running statistic more difficult because the count would be inaccurate. Voyager was capable of receiving these sorts of items without automatically generating a barcode while also allowing to track the receiving information. It would useful if you added this feature to Alma.
Pat
shared this idea
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Alice
commented
Able to suppress an item except for the latest received is a great idea. It is useful for items that are not published or suspended that are not received but would like to let staff know why they are not available.
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Linda Crook commented
This would also be helpful for analyzed sets, where we need to track that the items have all been received but the item records will be attached to other bibs.
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Anonymous
commented
My initial thought was to suggest the ability to suppress items (if it hasn't already been suggested), but this idea makes good sense statistically-speaking, mess-wise, and total number of processing clicks involved.